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Hubworx products include Hubworx Network Manager, Hubworx Web Office, and Hubworx Thin Client Server. Hubworx Network Manager was a complete Linux Operating System (based on Mandriva Linux) designed to manage your network and protect it from intruders. It comes with simple but powerful tools to administer your system and protect against viruses, spam, and undesirable content. Hubworx Web Office was a suite of web-enabled applications securely accessible from any PC with an Internet connection. Tools include e-mail client, shared calendar, contact management, project manager. Hubworx Thin Client Server was designed to extend the useful life of any obsolete PC by converting it into a powerful thin client. Standard software includes a suite of open source office applications.
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| 2014-03-28 |
NEW • Development Release: GhostBSD 4.0-ALPHA2 |
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The second alpha build of the upcoming GhostBSD 4.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system supporting the most popular lightweight and fully-featured desktop environments, has been unleashed: "The second ALPHA build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on SourceForge for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Changes and problems fixed between 4.0-ALPHA1 and 4.0-ALPHA2 include: Network Manager permission fixed, Network Manager packaging fixed, GhostBSD GBI Installer for virtual box fixed, auto partitioning for virtual box fixed, installing on an entire disk fixed. Known issue: Network in Virtualbox does not work." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): GhostBSD4.0-ALPHA2-amd64.iso (2,007MB). |
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| GhostBSD is a user-friendly desktop operating system based on TrueOS (which is, in turn, based on FreeBSD's development branch). The project's goal is to create an easy-to-use and familiar workspace that can be used at home or office and for data rescue. GhostBSD supports a number of popular lightweight desktop environments, including MATE, Xfce. It also provides FreeBSD's package management system, LibreOffice, LibreCAD, and Eclipse/Anjuta development environments for C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Jala and Python.
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| 2019-10-27 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 19.10 |
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Eric Turgeon has announced the release of GhostBSD 19.10, the latest stable build of the project's desktop-oriented, rolling-release operating system based on TrueOS and featuring the MATE desktop environment: "I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 19.10 with some improvement to the live ISO image and UEFI multiboot fix and improvement. GhostBSD 19.10 is a significant improvement over 19.09. Our latest ISO image contains improvements to our EFI multiboot installation process and our backend installer. GhostBSD 19.09 marked the last major change of GhostBSD. For current users of GhostBSD 19.09, there is no need to re-install to upgrade to GhostBSD 19.10. For new users, the GhostBSD 19.10 ISO image provides a simple, elegant installation process to get you going quickly. Changes since 19.09: UEFI multiboot installation for supported hardware; changed the ISO boot setup; removed netmount services. Issues fixed: bug #113 - update station issues; feature #119 - rewrite the code to build the live ISO image in order to fix the EFI issue caused by sysroot...." Here is the full release announcement with screenshots and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD19.10.iso (2,385MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2019-09-16 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 19.09 |
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GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented, rolling-release operating system based on TrueOS. The project's latest release, 19.09, shifts its base from TrueOS's cutting edge development branch to the slower moving, but still rolling, Stable branch. "GhostBSD 19.09 has some considerable changes happened, like moving the system to STABLE instead of CURRENT for ABI stability with the integration of the latest system update developed by TrueOS. This also means that current users will need to reinstall GhostBSD unless they were running on the development version of GhostBSD 19.09. GhostBSD 19.09 marks the last major changes the breaks updates for software and system upgrade. What has changed since 19.04: GhostBSD 19.09 is built from TrueOS/FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE. OpenRC is updated to 0.41.2. GhostBSD now use TrueOS packages base from ports. NetworkMgr CPU usage got improved. A lot of unnecessary software got removed. Exaile got replaced with Rhythmbox. GNOME MPV got replaced by VLC. XFburn got replaced by Brasero. Vim got replaced by Tiny Vim." Further details and screenshots can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD19.09.iso (2,503MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2019-04-13 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 19.04 |
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GhostBSD is a rolling release TrueOS-based desktop operating system which features the MATE desktop (a community edition that offers the Xfce desktop is also available). The project's latest release is GhostBSD 19.04: "Finally, GhostBSD 19.04 is out! GhostBSD 19.04 has several improvements from the volume controller to the installer, and for the first time, we did add and change some code on the base system. GhostBSD 19.04 is available with our official MATE desktop including the community Xfce desktop iso. This release is a significant improvement from GhostBSD 18.12 enjoy. What has changed since 18.12: Replaced slim by LightDM; updated the system to FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT; added the supports of ZFS with MBR on the installer; removed TrueOS setting to default to ZFS which improved the installation of UFS; fix default mate-terminal setting; Added GhostBSD boot mute; added Refine setup on the installer; removed gksu; fixed UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' problem with Software Station." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256) (pkglist): GhostBSD19.04.iso (2,694MB, torrent), GhostBSD19.04-XFCE.iso (2,554MB, torrent). |
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| 2018-12-31 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 18.12 |
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GhostBSD is a rolling-release desktop operating system based on TrueOS, which is in turn based on FreeBSD's development (-CURRENT) branch. The project has published an update to GhostBSD 18.10, GhostBSD 18.12, which includes a number of updates and which replaces the Oktopkg graphical package manager with Software Station 0.3, a new pkgng-using software manager developed in-house. The new release also comes with updated versions of FFmpeg (4.1), Firefox (64.0), GStreamer (1.14.4), PulseAudio (12.2) and Thunderbird (60.3.3), among others. "GhostBSD 18.12 is an updated ISO image of GhostBSD 18.10 with some little changes to the live DVD/USB and with updated packages. What has changed since 18.10: removed default call of kernel modules for AMD and Intel processors; replaced Octopkg by Software Station; added back gop hacks to the live system; added ghostbsd-drivers and ghostbsd-utils; we updated the packages to the latest builds." The project's release announcement offers upgrade instructions for existing users along with screenshots of the operating system's MATE desktop environment. Download the latest version of GhostBSD from the project's download server: GhostBSD18.12.iso (2,592MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-11-01 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 18.10 |
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The GhostBSD team have announced a new release, GhostBSD 18.10, which is the first stable version from the project to use TrueOS instead of FreeBSD as the operating system's base. The new version also adopts LibreSSL over OpenSSL, removes the GRUB boot loader in favour of FreeBSD's loader and the operating system uses ZFS as the default file system. "GhostBSD 18.10 is our first official release of GhostBSD with TrueOS under the hood and the official desktop is MATE. What has changed since 11.1: GhostBSD is now built from TrueOS instead of FreeBSD; OpenRC is GhostBSD main init system; LibreSSL is the default SSL; GhostBSD base system can now be upgraded to the next release via TrueOS packages base; we removed GRUB from the ISO in favor of the new FreeBSD hybrid loader; NetworkMgr now supports the option to manage multiple network card connection; Unionfs was removed from the live session; the live system has been rewritten to fix many issues; GhostBSD boots directly to MATE session; GhostBSD supports ZFS BE by default; FreeBSD ports and packages are incompatible with GhostBSD 18.10; GhostBSD uses TrueOS ports to build packages; drm-next-kmod was added for newer AMD and Intel cards; NVIDIA driver 390.87 was added to support the latest NVIDIA cards...." Further information can be found in the release announcement. Download: GhostBSD18.10.iso (2,615MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-10-20 |
Development Release: GhostBSD 18.10 RC1 |
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The GhostBSD project develops a user-friendly, desktop-oriented flavour of the FreeBSD family. Past versions of the operating system were based on FreeBSD, but the project's new release candidate, GhostBSD 18.10 RC1, is based on TrueOS. "This first release candidate of GhostBSD 18.10 is the first official release of GhostBSD with TrueOS under the hood. The official desktop of GhostBSD is MATE, in the future there might be some community release like XFCE, but for there is no community release yet. What has changed since 11.1: GhostBSD is now built from TrueOS instead of FreeBSD. OpenRC is our main init system. LibreSSL is in base. GhostBSD base system can now be upgraded to the next release via TrueOS packages base. We removed GRUB from the ISO in favor of the new FreeBSD hybrid loader. NetworkMgr now supports the option to manage multiple network card connection. Unionfs was removed from the live session. The live system has been rewritten to fix many issues. GhostBSD boots directly to MATE session. GhostBSD supports ZFS BE by default. FreeBSD ports and packages are incompatible with GhostBSD 18.10. GhostBSD uses TrueOS ports to build packages." Further information and screenshots can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso (2,535MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2017-11-16 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 11.1 |
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GhostBSD is an easy to use, FreeBSD-based desktop operating system. The project has released GhostBSD 11.1 which is available in MATE and Xfce flavours. The new version features easy ZFS configuration the Whisker Menu for the Xfce edition, keyboard layout fixes and an independent GhostBSD software repository. "After a year of development, testing, debugging and working on our software package repository, we are pleased to announce the release of GhostBSD 11.1 is now available on 64-bit (amd64) architecture with MATE and Xfce desktop on direct and torrent download. With 11.1 we drop 32-bit i386 support, and we currently maintain our software packages repository for more stability. What's new on GhostBSD 11.1: GhostBSD software repository. Support VMware Workstation Guest Features. New UFS full disk mirroring option on the installer. New UFS full disk MBR and GPT option on the installer. New UFS full disk swap size option on the installer. Whisker Menu as default Application menu on Xfce. All software developed by GhostBSD is now getting updated." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): GhostBSD11.1-mate-amd64.iso (2,397MB, SHA256, torrent), GhostBSD11.1-xfce-amd64.iso (2,267MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2017-11-06 |
Development Release: GhostBSD 11.1-RC1 |
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GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. The project has published a new release candidate for the 11.1 series, GhostBSD 11.1-RC1. The new development snapshot removes GRUB from the system installer to prevent a number of bugs and ZFS volume configuration has been updated. "This last development release of GhostBSD 11.1 is ready for testing. All MATE and Xfce images are available only for 64-bit architectures. For some of you, it might be shock that we are dropping i386 it is a decision that was hard to make. We hope for those that need i386 will find refuge to another BSD project. On this RC release, we need help to find more problems. GhostBSD 11.1 is our first release featuring our own software package repository. What changed in 11.1 RC1: We removed GRUB from the installer for 11.1 as it has caused us a lot of problems, and this is why the release is late; ZFS configuration. Issues that got fixed: The partition list was not deleted when pressing back; the installer was not listing ZFS disk correctly." The release announcement invites people testing GhostBSD to report bugs. Download (pkglist): GhostBSD11.1-RC1-20171031-142739-mate-amd64.iso (2,398MB, SHA256), GhostBSD11.1-RC1-20171031-143943-xfce-amd64.iso (2,269MB, SHA256). |
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| 2017-08-31 |
Development Release: GhostBSD 11.1-BETA1 |
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The GhostBSD project develops a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system. The GhostBSD project has published a new beta snapshot based on FreeBSD 11.1 and is testing new support for VMware Workstation Guest Features. "This first beta of the development of GhostBSD 11.1 release is ready for testing. All MATE and Xfce image is available with i386 and amd64 architectures. We hope to see a lot of people helping to test this next release. New feature: support VMware Workstation Guest Features out-of-box. Issues that got fixed: locale setting not filling correctly; Update Station tray icon; Xfce GhostBSD build: pkg still bootstraps from pkg.freebsd.org instead of pkg.ghostbsd.org; Octopkg/new repo." Additional information on this beta release can be found in the project's release announcement. GhostBSD 11.1-BETA1 is available in MATE and Xfce editions. Download (pkglist): GhostBSD11.1-BETA1-20170829-182151-mate-amd64.iso (2,376MB, SHA256), GhostBSD11.1-BETA1-20170829-190242-xfce-amd64.iso (2,247MB, SHA256). |
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